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*Mary and Anya are texting*
Mary: I made plans for the four of us to go to Potters' Cafe.
Anya: Potters' Cafe?
Mary: Yeah, the one we went to tomorrow!
Anya: That's the name?
Mary: Yes sleepyhead! *InsertLaughingEmoji*
Anya: Oh, we'll get there earlier to taste the cakes.
Mary: Or we all can do the sampling together. Sherlock is family.
Anya: Sure! When do I to be there again?
Mary: Uh...7:30ish?
Anya: Sure. It's a date.
Mary: John and I and Sherlock and you? *InsertLaughingEmoji10x*
Anya: Bye.
*ChatEnds*
Really? Oh, she's so annoying these days. No, not annoying exactly. Just weirdly different.
Anyways, I gotta go and get ready for the evening to meet John's Best Man, Sherlock Holmes. Why does that name sound familiar again?
Oh, right! I can't remember. This is so irksome.
I walk to my double-door closet in my hotel room and I am met with gazillion options. How I managed to bring this giant collection of dresses, gowns, tights, heels, boots, bra-sets, jeans, sweaters with me, I have no idea!
I play Hands of Time by Rachel Diggs and Just A Kiss by Lady Antebellum in the background on a loop to soothe my soul.
Life is a carousel
Dancing 'round the mirrors we go up and down
So let the music take away the hurt you've come to know so well
Let it go cause...
You can't turn back the hands of time
Just let it go and you'll be fine
What's done is done and its alright
You cant turn back the hands of time
Another day is gone
Washed away with sorrows that you dwelled upon
And as the moon is rising, you think to yourself
I could be gone, if I go now
You can't turn back the hands of time
Just let it go and you'll be fine (woah)
What's done is done and its alright
You cant turn back the hands of time
Naaaa na na na
na na na na
na na na naaa.
Naaaa na na na
na na na na
na na na naaa.
You can't turn back the hands of time
Just let it go and you'll be fine (yeah)
What's done is done and its alright
You can't turn back the hands of time (na na na na na)
You can't turn back the hands of time
Just let it go and you'll be fine (yeah)
What's done is done and its alright
You can't turn back the hands of time.
After about 15 minutes of throwing my clothes on my bed I finally decide on wearing my DKNY White off-the-shoulder stretch silk blouse which has elasticated off-the-shoulder neckline, button-fastening cuffs, concealed button fastenings at front, curved hem with my Samsoe & Samsoe Marvel anthracite wrap-effect leather skirt. I like how well they go together and have a care-free and slightly loose style.
I wear my Wolford black wool blend tights underneath the skirt and finish the look with my Stella McCartney Elyse white faux leather flatforms.
I move on to my makeup and decide to do a minimal face. I apply my Too Faced Primed & Poreless Skin Smoothing Face Primer with my Giorgio Armani Beauty Luminous Silk Foundation yet again
I use my Urban Decay Naked3 Palette to create a natural look after applying my Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion on my lids to make the look lasts longer.
I then proceed to highlight my face with my Anastasia Beverly Hills Glow Kit. I deck out the look with my Tarte Tarteist™ Creamy Matte Lip Paint-Naughty Nudes in shade Crop Top which is a mauve brown.
I open the closet doors to grab my Alexander McQueen black satin shoulder bag but I see my sunglasses and jewellery as well. Since it is a bit sunny, I pick out my Chloé Carlina 18kt gold-plated oversized sunglasses and Fallon Andalusia taupe lace choker.
Once I'm done with slipping my choker on, I decide to wear my Fallon Marquis Wing cubic zirconia silver earrings.
Just as I'm about to leave, Mary calls me and asks me to pick her up because John had gone to pick Sherlock up from some store. Apparently he bought a gift for me.
"Why did he buy me a gift, again? Does he do that for everyone?" I ask her.
"No, I don't think so. This is a first for him. It definitely is weird," she says.
"Okay, so I'm coming to pick you up in 10. Be ready or you'll face my wrath," I say, she laughs and hangs up.
oOo
I park my Volvo XC90 SUV in Mary's driveway and ring the doorbell. Mary answers the door before one can say Alexander.
"What's the rush Mar? It's okay," I say as I enter her beautiful home which has a classic British charm.
I take in her ensemble when I sit on the couch as she offers me some water which I gladly accept, I down the glass within 5 seconds. I didn't know that I was this thirsty.
She is wearing the look I had arranged for her this morning over FaceTime. An Alexander McQueen black and white stretch jacquard-knit viscose blend dress with Alexander McQueen black 4 inch leather pumps. She's also wearing her Joomi Lim Victorian Romance wrap-around velvet choker which have Swarovski faux pearl embellishments.
"You have got to help me. I'm not able to do shit with my face. I have wrecked my winged eyeliner for 4 times," she says, whining.
"It's all right, I've got you," I say and get to work.
She has already done her base involving Primer, Foundation, Contour and Highlight so I move on to her lips and eyes.
I first give her Rose-Bitten Lips which involves giving lips a juicy, just-been-kissed look by dabbing them with sheer strawberry-colored lipstick or balm. I concentrate the color in the middle of the mouth and blend outward—that gives the most natural and beautiful effect.
I first apply my Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion over her lids and then apply a matte dark brown eyeshadow on the outer halves of her eyelids, I also line the outer half of the bottom lashline too. I then fill in the inner halves of her eyelids with the Essence eyeliner, blending the color with my fingers and re-applying until I reached the intensity I want. I also line the inner corner of her eyes with this Essence pencil, smudging the color along the bottom lashline to meet with the brown shadow. I line her waterline with Urban Decay Zero pencil and apply two coats of Too Faced Better Than Sex mascara.
"Done! Now you can go look at yourself in the mirror.," I say and she complies.
"Oh, this looks lovely! John will love it," she says and then looks at the clock when I say that we should get going.
"Yeah, sure! I'm just gonna grab my purse," she says and comes backs holding the DKNY Byrant Park small leather shoulder bag I had gifted to her when I had gone on dinner with her and John for the first time and it was Love-At-First-Touch. She absolutely adores it.
We reach The Potters' Cafe in half an hour, right at 7:30 on the dot but decide to skip the cake sampling because too much sugar intake in a day isn't good and will make us all fatty-fatty especially when we have not been working out lately.
At about 7:40, the guys arrive but they only see Mary sitting on our table for four because I had been inside. I was emerging out of Manager's room which happens to be Ella Grace. She is a very genial and amiable person and agreed immediately when I asked her to change the timings for cake sampling.
I go into shock as I see those very beautiful pair striking blue eyes I had seen in the cafe near The London Eye. Those beautiful, deadly beasts had triggered my nightmares and I have been seeing freakish-stuff lately. I haven't told anyone this but I have been questioning my sanity lately. Out of curiosity I had looked it up on the internet and I had found out that there are a number of psychological triggers that cause nightmares in adults.
Re-experiencing past trauma is the classic symptom of PTSD and can occur as a nightmare, flashback, or intrusive memory.
The difference between a flashback and an intrusive memory is simple. In a flashback you're actually reliving the memory, which means you've lost touch with your current situation. With intrusive memories, you know where and when you are, but the memory keeps intruding in your mind.
Trauma nightmares are often recurrent, may include details of a past trauma, can be terrifying, and often wake you out of sleep. Sometimes they disrupt sleep so badly that you don't want to sleep! Their origins lie both in your trauma and in your high arousal state.
You can also experience severe emotional or physical distress without the actual memory attached. This can lead to misdiagnosis, as it may resemble a panic attack, an episode of acute pain, a seizure, or a cardiac event.
So I found this all very disturbing, so I decided to search more about triggers instead of just asking John. But I did a little research of my own and found out a lot about these triggers.
Triggers are reminders of the trauma, and can evoke the release of traumatic memories. Triggers are everywhere. They can be anything your mind sees as similar to the situation where you were traumatized. They cause your brain to retrieve the trauma memory in a "flash".
There are a lot of common triggers like Environment, Senses, Thoughts, Emotions, Media, People associated with the trauma.
Triggers may be as simple as a smell, a sound, a name, or the temperature outside. It may be a scene in a TV show, or a subject of conversation over dinner. In fact, we all do this with good memories, hear a song or smell a food that reminds us of a pleasant occurrence in our past.
Supposedly, my trigger is that man. His blue eyes. What's he even doing here?
"Anne? Anne? Are you alright? Hey?" I hear Mary say-no, shriek is a better word perhaps- just as John asks somebody to bring some water.
"Yes, I think so. But who is this man and what's he doing here?" I ask her and John pointing towards the blue-eyed man.
"Why that is Sherlock Holmes! He's John's Best Man now don't try to resist this bar of chocolate. It will give you some energy," she says, dotingly. I would have protested but I don't really have any energy and my arms and feet feel giddy. I give in and sit on one of the luxurious couches thinking about Mary just told me.
So this is the "man of my nightmares", the one who lead to all those depressing, energy sucking dreams.
Sherlock Holmes.
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